Chris G wrote:
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 09:02:31PM +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
Chris G wrote:
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 12:42:26PM +0100, Gijs wrote:
This is total overkill for my actual requirement (which maybe I
should have stated at the outset), I simply want mail to root on my
Fedora machine to get sent to me rather than having to become root to
read it. No other mail is sent or read on this machine.
If you want root's mail to get delivered to your own email address,
you can use the file /etc/aliases.
I think the last line of the file already describes it, but if you
want root's mail to get delivered to [4]root@xxxxxxxx,
you can add to that file:
root: [5]root@xxxxxxxx
Ah, yes, but what do I put as my address in /etc/aliases? I can't
find an address that makes sendmail send it to me on this machine.
chrisg@localhost perhaps
I have tried:-
chris@localhost
chris@xxxxxxxxxxx
chris@[192.168.1.1]
and sendmail tries to send the *all* to the outside world!
Oh.
I have a freshly installed f8 box. I just did this:
[root@potoroo mail]# tail -4 /etc/aliases
decode: root
# Person who should get root's mail
root: summer
[root@potoroo mail]#
it works, I did this:
echo t | mail -s t root
and have this:
[root@potoroo mail]# cat /var/mail/summer
From root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mon Nov 12 05:29:24 2007
Return-Path: <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Received: from potoroo.demo.lan (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
by potoroo.demo.lan (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id lABKTO5F008420
for <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:29:24 +0900
Received: (from root@localhost)
by potoroo.demo.lan (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id lABKTOW3008419
for root; Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:29:24 +0900
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:29:24 +0900
From: root <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Message-Id: <200711112029.lABKTOW3008419@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: t
t
[root@potoroo mail]#
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